This has been bugging me for weeks, so: an online friend finder for benefits. Applied to benefits, nothing improves until you compare two platforms in the same fortnight. If friend platforms is your priority, the share of verified profiles matters more than the size of the database, on the evidence I have.
Benefits is the clearest case of it — you get further if you compare two platforms in the same fortnight. Nothing about benefits friend changes the fact that most of the disappointment traces back to how fast moderation responds. I judge benefits friend on one thing: it is worth checking how quickly the inbox fills before you look at the app store rating.
Look closely at benefits platforms and the reply rate tells you more than the marketing copy. Treat an online friend finder for benefits as a filtering problem and it follows that the honest advice is to report problems early instead of blocking quietly, on the evidence I have. Is benefits even the right thing to be optimising for here?